An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Kenneth L. Roberts, conducted on 27 July 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The Turner...

A postcard of Battle Ground Academy and Gymnasium, circa 1909. Established in 1889, the school was named for its original location on the battle ground of the Civil War Battle of Franklin. The first campus was erected at the corner of Columbia...

An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville educator Mildred Owsley Buchanan., conducted on two dates in November 1980 by Paul Clements as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Buchanan, a home economics...

Excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashvillian Mary Manier Cooper, conducted on 10 November 1980 by Fred Cooper as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. In these excerpts, Cooper discusses riding the streetcars;...

A photograph of a portion of the children who attended the Nashville Children's Theatre Carnival. This excerpt ran with the Nashville Banner newspaper story on May 14, 1941 about the event: "The parking space at the side of the Community Playhouse...

A photograph of Sgt. J. R. Sadler, a Tennessee Confederate veteran in a military uniform, perhaps as part of a reunion ceremony. Sadler lived to be 98 years old and the September 29th, 1943 Banner newspaper states: “... Sgt. J. R. Sadler, 98,...

A studio portrait of Rebecca Landers in Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) uniform, 26 May 1943. An inscription on the front of the photograph to her husband, Corris, reads: "Everlastingly your wife, Rebecca." A few months after this photograph...

A photograph of the Senior Class of the 1934 Y.M.C.A. Night Law School of Nashville, Tennessee. The law school operated over many decades at Nashville's Downtown Y.M.C.A. (226 7th Avenue North) from circa 1911 until 1986. It was opened by recent...

A photograph of the Al Menah Temple Shriners waving goodbye from the back of a train leaving Union Station in Nashville, Tennessee to attend the annual Southeastern Shrine Convention in Memphis, Tennessee where they stayed at the Peabody Hotel. The...